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BBC NEWS | Business | IBM 'helped in Nazi mass-murder'
A Swiss court clears the way for Gypsy groups to sue the US giant, alleging that its machines were knowingly used in the Holocaust.
Wednesday, 23 June, 2004, 10:38 GMT 11:38 UK
Company names appearing in this article are:
- Daimler AG (Germany)
- IBM (International Business Machines) (USA)
- Siemens AG (Germany)
- Volkswagen AG (Germany)
PART VII: CLOAKED BUSINESS
by Mark Fritz / Globe Staff / November 19, 2001
Company names appearing in this article are:
- Allianz AG (Germany)
- Assicurazioni Generali (Italy)
- Daimler AG (Germany)
- Deutsche Bank AG (Germany)
- Ford Motor Company (USA)
- IBM (International Business Machines) (USA)
- Munich Re Group (Germany)
- Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands)
- Siemens AG (Germany)
- Swiss Reinsurance (Switzerland)
Volkswagen is one of the companies named in lawsuits filed in the US by Holocaust survivors who say they were used as slave labour. One survivor, Elly Gross, said she was separated from her family at Auschwitz, where her mother and brother died, and taken to work at a VW factory. She said: "Auschwitz was the hell. The factory where I worked was the skirt of the hell."
Tuesday, 1 September, 1998
Company names appearing in this article are:
- Audi AG (a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG) (Germany)
- BMW AG (BMW Group) (Germany)
- Daimler-Benz (now Daimler AG) (Germany)
- Diehl (now Diehl Stiftung & Co. (Germany)
- Krupp-Hoesch (ThyssenKrupp AG) (Germany)
- Leica Camera AG (Germany)
- MAN Group (predecessor GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH, Oberhausen) MAN Group sold off GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH, Oberhausen. Shares of company taken over by Schmidt, Kranz & Co. (Germany)
- Siemens AG (Germany)
- Volkswagen AG (Germany)
A group of Holocaust survivors sued some of Germany's best-known companies -- including Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz -- accusing them of having profited from slave labour during the Nazi era.
Monday, 31 August, 1998
Company names appearing in this article are:
- Daimler-Benz (now Daimler AG) (Germany)
- Volkswagen AG (Germany)
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